Associated Content Producers Spotlight

I have been compiling a list of content producers that have been spotted in other media outlets.  Here’s who’s been spotted.

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A couple of months ago it happened: when I tried to log in AC (as you do in the morning) there was no AC. “Website cannot be found” it said on my screen.

I stared at the words. I couldn’t believe it. And I tried again, and again. Still no AC.

After banging my head against the wall, I sat down and looked at my lonely cup of morning coffee. Usually the first one is followed by many more by the time it’s 9 am. But no more AC, no more coffee. No more chatting on the threads, no more writing articles.

I imagined that a disaster must have happened, there in Denver. And normally I would have known what kind of disaster, because it would have been on AC. But not now of course. Because AC had ceased to exist.

I thought of what could have happened; it must have been big; Sam would never have given up without a fight. I pictured him clutching floppy disks in his bloody hands, defending himself with a paperclip.Of course, I thought, muscled Russian mobsters carrying machine-guns have taken over Denver! But no, I thought again, we’re talking about Denver, Colorado, not Moscow. And surely this would have been on TV. Sam sprinting through the streets must be a sight to behold and the CNN TV cameras would have zoomed in.  

Finishing my coffee (and thus loaded up on caffeine) I finally had the solution. Why I hadn’t thought of it before I don’t know.

Because what do you do when you have a problem? You email Sam. By now it seems, whatever your problem is; ranging from: “how to fix the dishwasher” to “how to keep the kids quiet” to: “What’s the best place to go on Summer vacation?”, Sam gets the questions, by email. He has no answers to all these totally irrelevant questions of course, but that’s not the issue here.

So, I emailed Sam to notify him that it appeared that he was out of job. He’s a big guy, but he can move like lightening in cases like this. I got an email back saying that no, AC was still there. I logged in and everybody and everything  was  where they should be. I got out my hanky and wiped the sweat off my brow, immensely relieved. It must have been a glitch on my end.

But it got me thinking: suppose, just suppose, that one day AC is really gone? Would you miss it? Would you miss the people there? The writing?

Just think of it.

It could well be that you would miss it more than you realize now.

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The last few months at AC have grown inflammatory, derogatory, accusatory, defamatory, feudatory and even hallucinatory. All because of politics.

Content producers brave enough to state their political opinions have had to fight for them. CPs and readers have agreed and disagreed, sometimes in the forums, other times in the comment section of articles. The battle has clearly defined the political stand Content Producers are taking.

Associated Content is just as politically divided as the rest of the nation which only goes to show that amongst opposing viewpoints we are still one nation united together.

If you were to create a map of Associated Content Producers and mark them either red or blue like they do with the electoral votes map on the news the results would be remarkably similar

When I searched AC’s library of articles siding with both presidential candidates there were more results in favor of Obama. Not by much though. I used the search term “vote for obama” and “vote for mccain” and 2,832 turned up for obama and 2,518 for mccain. You have to take into account though all the articles listed in those results that said won’t, can’t or don’t vote but even then there are still more articles in favor of Obama than there are of McCain.

Of course now that it’s November 5^th it doesn’t really matter who voted for who because Obama has already won.

Perhaps we should have a little compassion for our Conservative, Republican, McCain loving Content Producers. As a gesture of letting bygones be bygones I offer you this list of disappointed CPs.

Todaysbest4me – Why I can’t Vote for Obama.

Charles Drengberg – Top 10 Reasons Not to Vote for Obama

Amanda Keller – Questions in The Rain as I Vote for McCain.

Timothy Sexton – Top 5 Reasons You Should Vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin

Alison Hasselguist – Why I Vote John McCain and Not Barack Obama

Virtual Vee – Why I Will Vote for John McCain

JHoff – This Time I’m Supporting McCain

LarrWayne – Vote for McCain Not Higher Taxes

I was recently informed that I made a blunder and included a couple of articles that were actually written in sarcasim.  So I went ahead and removed those from the list above and ind will instead add another list in this post for those in favor of Obama.  Thanks Sheryl!

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